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magnet
English
Etymology
From Middle English magnete, via Old French magnete, Latin magnetum (“lodestone”), from Ancient Greek ???????? [?????] (magnêtis [líthos], “Magnesian [stone]”), either after the Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern-day Manisa, Turkey), or after the Greek region of ???????? (Magn?sía) (whence came the colonist who founded the city in Lydia).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?mæ?n?t/
- Homophone: magnate (one pronunciation)
Noun
magnet (plural magnets)
- A piece of material that attracts some metals by magnetism.
- (informal, figuratively, preceded by a noun) A person or thing that attracts what is denoted by the preceding noun.
- 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma, National Geographic (March 2007), 47,
- […] I wanted to show Nick the largest of the water holes, Rigueik, that act as magnets to life in the dry season.
- 2007, J. Michael Fay, Ivory Wars: Last Stand in Zakouma, National Geographic (March 2007), 47,
Derived terms
Related terms
Coordinate terms
- electret (a magnet analog for electric charge)
Translations
See also
- Wikipedia article on magnets
- Wikipedia article on magnetism
Anagrams
- Getman
Cebuano
Etymology
From English magnet, from Old French magnete, Latin magnetum "lodestone" from Ancient Greek ???????? [?????] (magnêtis [líthos], “Magnesian [stone]”), either after the Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern-day Manisa, Turkey), or after the Greek region of ???????? (Magn?sía) (whence came the colonist who founded the city in Lydia).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: mag?net
Noun
magnet
- a magnet
Czech
Etymology
Ancient Greek ???????? (magnêtis)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?ma?n?t]
Noun
magnet m
- magnet
Related terms
- magi?
- magne?ák
- magnetický
- magnetismus
- magnetizovat
- magnetka
- magnetofon
- magnetosféra
- magnetoskop
- magnetovat
- elektromagnet
- elektromagnetický
- elektromagnetismus
Further reading
- magnet in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- magnet in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Middle English
Noun
magnet
- Alternative form of magnete
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
magnet m (definite singular magneten, indefinite plural magneter, definite plural magnetene)
- a magnet
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- “magnet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
magnet m (definite singular magneten, indefinite plural magnetar, definite plural magnetane)
- a magnet
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- “magnet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m??ne?t/
- Hyphenation: mag?net
Noun
màgn?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)
- a magnet (piece of material that attracts metal by magnetism)
Declension
References
- “magnet” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
Swedish
Noun
magnet c
- a magnet (piece of material that attracts metal by magnetism)
Declension
Related terms
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magnesia
English
Etymology
From Middle English magnesia, from Late Latin magnesia, from Ancient Greek ???????? (magn?sía), after ????????, a city name in Thessaly, Lydia, and Asia Minor.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?mæ??ni??/
- Hyphenation: mag?ne?sia
- Rhymes: -i???
Noun
magnesia (uncountable)
- (mineralogy) magnesium oxide
Derived terms
Related terms
- magnesiferous
- magnet
Translations
Further reading
- Magnesium oxide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- mesangia, ænigmas
Italian
Etymology
From Medieval Latin magnesia
Noun
magnesia f (plural magnesie)
- (mineralogy) magnesia
Derived terms
- latte di magnesia
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ma??ne?.si.a/, [mä??ne?s?iä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ma???e.si.a/, [m??????s?i?]
Noun
magn?sia
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of magn?sium
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Medieval Latin magnesia, from Ancient Greek ???????? (magn?sía)
Noun
magnesia m (definite singular magnesiaen, uncountable)
- (chemistry) magnesia
- Synonyms: magnesiumkarbonat, magnesiumoksid
Derived terms
- magnesium
References
- “magnesia” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “magnesia” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Medieval Latin magnesia, from Ancient Greek ???????? (magn?sía)
Noun
magnesia m (definite singular magnesiaen, uncountable)
- (chemistry) magnesia
- Synonyms: magnesiumkarbonat, magnesiumoksid
Derived terms
- magnesium
References
- “magnesia” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Spanish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???????? (?????) (Magn?sía (líthos), “(stone of) Magnesia”), name of several minerals from the region in Asia Minor.
Noun
magnesia f (plural magnesias)
- (mineralogy) magnesia
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